"Youth and Old Age at Opening of Congress" (detail), photograph, 1927, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

COMBS, George Hamilton, Jr., a Representative from Missouri;
born in Kansas City, Mo., May 2, 1899;
attended the Kansas City public schools, the University of Missouri at Columbia, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor;
served in the United States Navy in 1918;
was graduated from the Kansas City School of Law in 1921;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Kansas City, Mo.;
assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson County, Mo., 1922-1924;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1929);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1928;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1928;
moved to New York City in 1929 and continued the practice of law;
special assistant to the attorney general of the State of New York in 1931;
attorney for the Triborough Bridge Authority in 1933 and 1934;
associate counsel to the New York State Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Public Utilities 1934-1936;
appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as New York State director of the National Emergency Council in 1936;
radio news analyst, war correspondent, and writer 1937-1951;
special United States attorney, Office of Price Stabilization for southern district of New York, in 1951 and 1952;
television and radio news commentator 1952-1961;
chief United Nations correspondent and news commentator for Mutual Broadcasting System, 1961-1971;
died in West Palm Beach, Fla., November 29, 1977.